Oleg Savrasov

We live in a multicultural society with more than 7 000 languages spoken across the world today. To better serve the needs and preferences of global consumers, retailers need to understand the unique nuances and characteristics of the diverse languages their customers speak. It is no longer enoug...

Nearly all major online retailers these days support faceted navigation, as it is a key instrument of product discovery. Facets provide a powerful, intuitive way to summarize search results from multiple perspectives. They also offer a straightforward interface to apply filters and refine navigat...

In a previous post, we talked about business motivations behind the support of structured documents in a Solr/Lucene index and the unique requirements for a  faceting engine which is created by this approach to modeling data. We have introduced SOLR-5743. Now it is time to take a deep di...

A straightforward look at how block join faceting works, how it can save your customers from frustrating search experiences, and why Grid Dynamics created SOLR-5743 to bring block join faceting to Solr Here is a simple type of faceted search you see on many e-commerce websites: In this ex...